Mike Hammer: The pied piper of counterrevolution
Mike Hammer, diplomático estadounidense en Cuba, ha violado su estatus diplomático con actos provocadores e injerencistas. Las autoridades denuncian su apoyo a elementos contrarrevolucionarios que buscan desestabilizar el país. A pesar de sus intentos, los cubanos rechazan la intervención extranjera y defienden su soberanía.
Since his arrival in the country, this individual has adopted a provocative and interventionist attitude, violating his diplomatic status, which has been denounced by Cuban authorities.
His misdeeds have led him, during his travels across the national territory, to contact counterrevolutionary ringleaders and other elements devoid of dignity and patriotic sentiment, inciting and supporting them to violate the established constitutional order. Thus, they act to achieve what they call a “regime change” in the country—the supreme objective of the aggressive northern neighbor.
However, when he has encountered honest citizens who questioned him about the hostility of Yankee policy toward Cuba, he has immediately—without responding to criticism and avoiding a debate he knows is lost in advance—cowardly abandoned those places, where he has faced the people’s rejection of him and the government he represents.
Some bad Cubans, in a servile manner, following a pre-prepared script or on their own initiative, have approached him to pay him homage. This speaks poorly of them as human beings and citizens of a country that the U.S. administration—of which Hammer is the leading figure in Cuba—has subjected to suffering, shortages, and the difficult economic situation we face, so much harm does it inflict on the Cuban people.
It is no secret that this obese character supports all of this, just as it is no secret that the tightened economic, commercial, and financial blockade is the main obstacle to our development. It is not “hot air,” as some say, nor an excuse to hide our own mistakes. Reality cannot be hidden, which is why the vast majority of the world demands annually at the UN that the U.S. lift this genocidal blockade.
Blaming the Cuban government for the current economic situation in the country, with its negative social repercussions, is one of the most cynical arguments used by the true culprit—namely, the United States—to justify its betrayal. And those who, in search of shameful handouts and other spurious interests, serve as its echo chamber in this despicable endeavor.
It is painful to see the hardships our noble people are forced to endure, but we also feel great pride in being part of them when, despite everything, they continue fighting to move forward without being deceived by those who—presenting themselves, like Hammer, as their “friends”—seek to push them into a dead end: securing their support to restore capitalism in Cuba.
Faced with this complex and harsh scenario—of which we know who bears ultimate responsibility, and whom history will not absolve, as it is riddled with terrorist acts, sabotage, economic, biological, and media warfare against our homeland—it is worth asking:
How can someone born in this land stoop so low as to kiss the hand of the one who, in his person, represents the executioner of his compatriots?
Those who rush like eager vassals to wherever Hammer appears or convenes—transformed into a sort of Pied Piper, followed by his procession of rats—to listen to his lies and incitements to break the law, believing he will guarantee them impunity, are mistaken. Equally mistaken is the ridiculous “diplomat” if he thinks he can violate them too.
The majority of the Cuban people, paraphrasing the teacher, prefer “to live one minute standing rather than a lifetime on their knees.” Keep that in mind, Mr. Piper.
They miscalculate and repeat the same mistake as with James Cason, who acted similarly and only became an object of mockery, starring in a series of Cuban cartoons titled “Cases and Things of Corporal Cason.” Perhaps Mike Hammer is fighting for his own version.
For over six decades, we have faced the hostility of Yankee policy toward Cuba, which has included: a genocidal blockade, the organization and financing of counterrevolutionary gangs, terrorist acts, internal mercenaries, and a ruthless media war, among other despicable actions. In this time, they have accumulated failures and defeats; we, experience and victories.
That is why, despite their power and the money invested in their activities against Cuba—as well as the malice, cynicism, and lack of ethics with which they have acted in their obsessive drive to overthrow the Revolution—whenever they have come for wool, they have left shorn. We are not a flock of sheep, but a dignified people who know how to defend the sovereignty and independence of their nation.
